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Gisement en grotte de la Font-Bargeix

Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier, Dordogne, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Gisement en grotte de la Font-Bargeix (cad. AM 158) : inscription par arrêté du 28 novembre 1989
Protection dates
1989/11/28 : inscrit MH
Type
site archéologique, grotte ornée
Main period of construction
Préhistoire, Paléolithique supérieur
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier
Département
Dordogne
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
45.46710, 0.60813
Mérimée reference
PA00083075

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Dans la galerie utilisée au paléolithique supérieur, ont été localisées des représentations pariétales (figurations animales, féminines, ponctuations, signes) datées du Magdalénien supérieur.

English translation

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In the gallery used in the Upper Palaeolithic, parietal representations were located (animal figures, feminine figures, punctuation, signs) dated to the Upper Magdalenian.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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